Famous Joseph Conrad Quotations

   The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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   What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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   I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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   For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.
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   Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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   We live, as we dream, alone
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   They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything.
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   Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.
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   All a man can betray is his conscience.
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   All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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   It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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   Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
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   I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.
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   How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat
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   The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
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   Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.
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   The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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   Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
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   Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.
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   You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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   The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
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   As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
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   The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.
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   Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
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